Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-27
PIG-MARKEIfNG.
How Farmers Could Easily Increase Their
Income from livestock.


Income from livestock.
Farmers could be little more indie
pendent in the marketing of their pigs.
City people will buy sausage, head
cheese, hams, shoulders, bacon and
spare ribs of farmer if he has repu-
ta6ion VI oPth any thing in his business,
and IF he Aas not it is his own fault. If
ne has habit of taking his produce to
the market in slovenly and miserable
form, he can not expect people to want
his pigs when retailed by himself.
When cut up and sold from butchers
shop, no bne knows where they come
from andeno one seems to care. Here
is chance for reform. A farmer who
wears clean clothes and does not go
FOund with the tobacco juice running
down the corners of his mouth, and
VINO blows his nose with a handkerchief
can go into city mans place of bust
ness and say: my name is Curtis. L
have a nice lot of hogs which have
been grown on my farm. They have
been fattened on milk. corn and wheat
middlings and are healthy and will
make the best of meat. They have
been kept clean and have had pure air
to breath. 1 want to kill them and re-
fail theParts. / can sell YOU sausage,
also head-cheese made by my wife; and
spare ribs for ten cents a pound; also
the lard. 1 will deliver these fresh and
in good order, and at the proper time
will sell you hams, shoulders and bacon
at, think, twelve cents a pound. The
Jowls are made into head-cheese. We
a lnln xxrhIO IS
an excellent food and very healthy, for
ten cents pound" Unless this city
man was fool he would see that his
opportunity had come to buy healthy
meat in the most desirable forms, at
considerably less than the grocers' or
butchers prices, and at the same time
bya little side trade with a countryman
win a customer, and he would
say: ''When you come to town
bring me few pounds of saul
sage, head cheese, scrappel and
a spare-rib or twOs and when the time
comes, two sides of bacon, ham and
SHOULDER
This conversation Is no romance: 1t
has occurred and ought to be repeated
until it has fixed business relation be-
tween producer and consumer, which
will benefit both. The farmer will get |
more and the city men pay less. To |
carry it out the farmer must have pigs, |
and he must know how to do things, |
and if he has not had the experience and |
does notpossess the gumption, then he |
should hire some one who is an expert |
IN butchering and i'll cutting and pre-
pairing meats.
'. BY taking the pains alluded to, and
The trouble, any good farmer can mar
het his pigs at about twice the amount
the butchers are willing to pay-there
is. no justice in butcher getting double
the cost for the meat he sells. The big
gest folly know of in this line, is the
custom which has grown up among the
farmers of selling all their calves,
lambs, sheep. pigs and beeves to
horde OF country butchers who buy at
their own prices and sell the same
NESTS right back to the farmers at
double and treble the amount they paid
for them. Little work and big pay is
their motto. A neighbor asked me the
other day what / got for my lambs
Merinos. told him "From four to five
dollars" Iexplained: eve ate them
and so saved buying meat which would
haze cost from twelve to sixteen cents
per pound" The year before the
butchers. offered two dollars each. This
offer was declined, and the lambs were
killed and dressed, dozen at a time,
by an experienced butcher. and cut into
quarters and sold at the village at eight
and nine cents a pound, and twice as
much as the butchers had offered was
for them. Anybody who has
u family to support will buy quarter
of lamb, or lot of fresh pig when it
can be had at wholesale price,
RurdE NeW Yorker.